Can creation file details be embedded into PDF metadata automatically?

I'd like to customize the metadata of PDFs I create to include vital details about the file that produced it. Specifically I'd like to include the file name, program version, OS platform, and hopefully also a summary of the PDF creation settings used.
Ideally, I'd love to find out that all of this info is already there somewhere, but so far all I can find is the program version (in the advanced metadata). Is there any way I can set up InDesign and Illustrator to do this automatically upon PDF creation? I've begun entering this info manually in the custom properties tab of the document properies, but that's a time-consuming and error-vulnerable workaround that I'd like to avoid.
In case it's helpful to know why I'm asking: I create a lot of PDFs from both InDesign and Illustrator, and often use the same native file to create multiple PDFs (e.g. a print-ready file and a notated FPO for print vendors). My native file naming convention includes info the printer usually doesn't need and may be confusing to them, so I always rename the PDF with something more concise. Frequently I'll have multiple versions of the native file as well, which complicates things if I need to check which native file produced which PDF...especially when I'm coming back to a project after much time has gone by.
Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the reply. I understand my wording was misleading.
What we are doing is taking a single page base PDF file, containing 10 elements for example, and using our own software (with help from iText) adding other page elements on the same page. Most of the time these elements are just text, or the odd image, but sometimes, we may be placing a PDF Logo on the same page. The resulting PDF seems to be a single page, containing 10+ elements of equal hierarchy, with no reference to the source PDF file that was used for the logo. Also looking at the Layers panel, There is no information here.
Are you saying then that there may be references to some of the elements based on the source PDF file?
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